Educational Technology

Satisfy our educational needs and desires for learning

What Educational Technology means

technology to support the learning process It’s also known variously as e-learningRefers to their inventions and discoveriesBroadest term in application of scientificEducation in order to effect learning

Development of Educational Technology

Can be traced back during ancientMan used pointed sticks to in script signs and symbol on the leavesBarks of trees and the timeWhen tribal priests systemized bodies of knowledge

History of education technology

Made to start with educational film (1900’s)Or Sidney Pressey’s mechanical teaching machines (1920’s)First large scale usage of new technologies can be traced to USWWII training of soldier through training film

Today, presentation-based technology on the ideaPeople can learn contents through aural and visual reception, exist in many forms another interesting invention of the 1940’s was hypertext, i.e.., V. Bush’s memex

History of education technology

In 1950’s led to two major still popular

Skinner’s – work led to “ program instruction” focusing on the formulation of behavioral objectives

Bloom – endorsed instructional techniques the varied

both instruction and time according tolearning requirements models based on these

design

1970’s to 1990’s

Computer-based training (CBT)Computer-aided instruction or Computer-assisted Instruction (CAI)Refers to as web-based training (WBD)The course designer divides learning content into smaller chunks of text augmented Frequent Multiple Choice question immediate feedback are added for self-assessment and guidance

1980’s and 1990’s

Produced a variety of schoolsUnder umbrella of the label computer-based learning (CBL)Preferred technologies were micro-worlds, stimulation and hypertext Educational started in 80’s and became popular by mid 90’sEarlier typed, based on either Computer Based Training (CBT)Interaction between the student and computer drills

Today the prevailing paradigm in the regular School System

Computer-mediated communication (CMC)The primary form, of interaction between

students and mediated by the computer. Teacher/Tutor facilitation and requires

scenarization of the flexible learning activities.

In 2000’s

Emerge of multiple mobile and ubiquitous technologies

Situated learning theories favoring learning-in-context scenarios.

Some literature uses the concept of integrated learning to describe blended

learning scenarios that integrate both School and

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